First cars I really have any memory of what-so-ever from when I was a child were my dad's VW's, namely a 1962 Beatle, pretty much exactly like the one pictured here, except ours had the factory cloth sunroof...

and a '73 VW Squareback, like this but if I remember correctly just a little darker blue:

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The first car that I ever rode in that really "lit a fire in me" was my uncle's 1959 Triumph TR3a......

and that TR3 was the first car I ever drove, when he let me take the wheel around their neighborhood when I was about 14......
which led me to my first car ever, a 1978 Triumph Spitfire 1500.......

my Spitfire, circa about 1988..